Meet Tara

I am a Board Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. I am currently living and working in Tahoe City, CA, yet thanks to the Internet, am able to coach clients all over the world. I am passionate about helping women to find their true healthy potential, balance their lives and live their most vibrant, energized, joyful lives. I am additionally passionate about changing the way current and future generations relate to food and to each other.

Prior to starting Balanced Wellness with Tara, it wasn’t always a happy healthy road for me.

I had always been passionate about health and food, and had self-prescribed myself diet after diet, and cleanse after cleanse. I was doing everything “right” and not seeing results. No matter what I tried, I wasn’t meeting my full potential of MY healthy, happy, vibrant self.

I was just about ready to give up trying to “fix” myself, when I received my wake up call that I was living a life misaligned with my truth. That was when the universe gave me a big smack in the head, literally, with a rock.

After suffering a traumatic brain injury while on the job as a whitewater River guide badass, healing my brain and restoring my cognitive function became my only job. Alone with nothing but my broken thoughts, I began to dig deep into my mental and emotional being to uncover and release the dragons in my closet that had prevented me from healing my previous “dis-ease”. It was my divine, sacred moment.

ANDTHEREITWAS:thetruththatIcouldn’tavoidanylonger.

My heart cracked open with enormous vulnerability as I admitted to myself that I was unable to keep moving forward on the path I’d been walking. As I so desperately sought fulfillment in my life, synchronicity led me to the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. I enrolled, it ignited a passion, and I finally began to heal my relationship with food and with myself.

I learned why nothing I had tried before worked. I learned the emotional, mental, and spiritual connections to health. I learned the tools I had always searched for in coming home to myself. I became vibrant, positive, excited for life and full of energy. I finally lost that weight, balanced my hormones (hallelujah!), and in spite of my brain injury cleared my mental fog and found clarity.

At the InstituteforIntegrativeNutrition I was trained in more than one hundred dietary theories and studied a variety of practical lifestyle coaching methods. Drawing on this knowledge, I will help YOU uncover, unlock and guide yourself home to you, because I believe everyone is an expert on themselves and their own experience of being a human on this planet. I will help you create a completely personalized “roadmap” to health that suits your unique body, lifestyle, preference, and goals.